Mindful ResilienceRebuilding Yourself After Life's Greatest TransitionsLife is filled with change some expected, many unexpected, and some that completely reshape who we are.Loss, uncertainty, emotional breakdowns, identity shifts, and life transitions can leave us feeling lost and disconnected from ourselves.But within every transition lies something powerful:the opportunity to rebuild yourself stronger, wiser, and more grounded than before....

What Remains of Absence is a deeply reflective literary work about longing, emotional distance, and the quiet process of healing. Through tender and poetic prose, the book explores the traces people leave behind, the ache of unspoken endings, and the strength it takes to live with what is gone. It is a gentle companion for readers who have loved, lost, and slowly learned how to carry absence without being consumed by it.

On a cold February night in 2007, a devoted father of four and a seventeen-year-old drunk driver both received life sentences. In one violent, devastating instant, both faced a drastically different—and uncertain—future. But as Chris Williams sat in his demolished vehicle, staring at the car that had just caused the death of his wife, his unborn baby, his nine-year-old daughter, and his eleven-year-old son, he committed to do something extraordinary: he would forgive. That decision launche...

It should have been an open and shut case, death by fire, but the more Detective Jack Whitmore digs, the stranger things become. Every corner is a new piece to a puzzle of intrigue, conspiracies, cults, sex, and monsters from beyond. Darcroft sits in a cosmic horror crime noir world. A city with all the notes: the reluctant detective, the femme fatale, the corrupt cop, the underworld and overworld. It’s a world where the outsiders have to hide who they are to survive, including the monster...

A teacher is hurt by a hit and run driver in the parking lot after January exams. His schedule has to be filled by others. The protagonist, Claire Hébert, the inveterate planner, gets a last minute timetable change. The same day her boyfriend has given her a puppy, which she only reluctantly to accepted because she already felt overwhelmed by schoolwork. She struggles to do her best with the new workload, but she’s a workaholic and it causes problems in her personal life. As the term progr...

The Healing Paws: How Pets Affect Their Owners' Health dives into the remarkable ways pets improve our mental, emotional, and physical well-being. This book explores scientific research and real-life stories, revealing how pets can lower stress, combat loneliness, and even promote heart health. With insights into the human-animal bond, it showcases the powerful role pets play in enriching and transforming lives. Whether you're a pet owner or simply curious, this book provides a heartwarmin...

Alethia Rose lives as a sheltered slave in a world shattered by magic. Her mundane life is altered irrevocably when a a young elf helps her unlock the hidden secrets of her mystic heritage. Her freedom won, Rose embarks upon a journey that could mend her dying world or send it further down the spiral of destruction. She and her companions travel through the dangerous sands of her desert home to the majestic forest of the elven people and beyond to the mysterious underground cities and tunn...

Around the world, consciousness of the threat to our environment is growing. The majority of solutions on offer, from using efficient light bulbs to biking to work, focus on individual lifestyle changes, yet the scale of the crisis requires far deeper adjustments. Ecology and Socialism argues that time still remains to save humanity and the planet, but only by building social movements for environmental justice that can demand qualitative changes in our economy, workplaces, and in...

Old Land, New Landscapes is the story of a farming community fighting to rehabilitate land degraded by more than a century of farming. Chris Williams tells of the trials and triumphs of the Sutherland family and other volunteers based around Peak Hill in central western New South Wales, as they set out to restore native vegetation and create the Genaren Hill wildlife sanctuary. This authoritative and engaging book is essential reading for farmers and Landcare scheme participants, ...

This book is essential reading for practitioners involved in introducing the use of cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) into their clinical practice and making it truly accessible to practitioners and patients alike. It covers:How to support someone in 10, 20 or 60 minutes using the successful and provenfive areas modelThe challenges faced and how to overcome these when working using guidedCBT self-help...

Alice needs a vacation to escape her family, unemployment, and a global pandemic. When the world shuts down due to a newly discovered virus, Zenith Pharm, a major drug manufacturer, reveals a breakthrough in vaccine development and offers individuals an all-expense-paid trip to a remote resort with an on-site testing facility. The catch: a little blood work, a little medicine-no big deal, right?Between the constant parties and pool-side recreations, Alice and the other guests exper...

Overcoming Depression and Low Mood in Older Adults joins the bestselling Routledge Overcoming Series, which includes publications that have the seal of approval by the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies and highly commended by the British Medical Association.This workbook outlines how to use the Five Areas® model of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) to equip older adults experiencing low mood or depression with key life skills to overcome these c...